¹⁵ For six days work^(A) is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,^(B) holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

²¹ “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest;^(A) even during the plowing season and harvest^(B) you must rest.

² For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath^(A) rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.^{(B) 3} Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.^(C)”

The Sabbath

³ “‘There are six days when you may work,^(A) but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,^(B) a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;^(C) wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

²² These are the commandments the Lord proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness;^(O) and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets^(P) and gave them to me.

²³ When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders^(Q) came to me. ²⁴ And you said, “The Lord our God has shown us^(R) his glory and his majesty,^(S) and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.^{(T) 25} But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.^{(U) 26} For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?^{(V) 27} Go near and listen to all that the Lord our God says.^(W) Then tell us whatever the Lord our God tells you. We will listen and obey.”^(X)

²⁸ The Lord heard you when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.^{(Y) 29} Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me^(Z) and keep all my commands^(AA) always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!^(AB)

³⁰ “Go, tell them to return to their tents. ³¹ But you stay here^(AC) with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”

³² So be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you;^(AD) do not turn aside to the right or to the left.^{(AE) 33} Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you,^(AF) so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days^(AG) in the land that you will possess.